Child work, one in ten children exploited in the world

Francesco de Remigis – Vatican City

Throughout the world, according to children’s rescue, there are 160 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 in the work exploitation networks, including nearly half of them, 79 million, forced to perform arduous and dangerous work, which can harm the development of health and psychological. They are the data confirmed by UNICEF. Lujino Brunei, a professor of political economics at the University of Luma in Rome, is reflected on the legacy that the Pope has left, who has repeatedly warned governments of the silence that is at risk of being a “partner” of the phenomenon that exploits the palace for the purposes of Lore.

UNICEF data

As part of the agenda of 2030, the international community agreed to the goal of ending children’s work in all its forms by 2025. Despite the progress made in the past two decades, according to UNICEF, recent data showed that no progress has been made around the world since 2016. In 2020, child labor affected about 63 million girls and 97 million boys. He joined nine million children due to the repercussions of Covid-19, so that almost one in ten children around the world is forced to work. Something more than half less than twelve years. The situation is specially dramatic in Africa, but Asia is not far. Boys are affected more than girls. The latter is often forced to perform home tasks that do not always appear in statistics.

The lesion of child labor is also in the UE-MERCOSUR Agreement

This issue is also present in the discussions contained between Mercosur, the SO SOTHE SOUT Complex Market to which Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay belong, and resulted in the agreement signed on December 6, 2024. European countries have set themselves differently. In mid -2015, the European Commission will have to define the legislative basis of the treaty and how it will be ratified, but the process can find a special resistance in France and Poland. Among other issues, uncertainty about protecting children’s workers who are used in some food crops from third countries where children and adolescents are exploited. The “hot” topic is walking alongside the debate about the use of pesticides and other products harmful to everyone’s health, especially workers.

Pope Francis lighting foci

According to Luigino Bruni, “The center of our time is consumption now, not work.” Central, therefore, becomes the need to recover some of the reminders carried out by Pope Francis throughout Pontefat. For example, in November 2021, in a letter to the international conference on “eliminating children’s work and building a better future”, Pope Francis was reflected on the appearance of children exploiting as follows: “The fact that in contemporary economies (…) continues to use children in work activities around the world leaves one of the amazing and discomfort.” The ink returned to him in the public hearing on January 8, and called on everyone not to remain indifferent to this plague, as institutions are attracted, on January 15th, and not children’s exploitation partners.

Francisco put the person again in the center

“If we look at what Pope Francis also said in 2022 to the youth of Francisco’s economy, in Asizy, we ask them not to forget that work is a way to include everyone, especially for those who call” the neglected ” – Brunei explains – we can say that he has become more interested in working than working in the abstract sense, and he does not ignore, but in the Union of Trader, it is in the evaluation, it can be ignored, in the evaluation, it can be ignored, Decision, as in avoidance, as in decision -making.

Children and adolescents who were taken from school

In this context, the Holy Father did not forget to ask the conscience to question the abuse made by a specific system of minors, forced to work. Bron recalls, “Regarding this issue, Pope Francis was very clear,” especially when it occurred in the regions of the world where child labor is not plague or exception, but rather a natural part of the economic system in which children and teenagers are taken from school and they are stuck inside the factories. Pope Francis gave great attention to them. ”